mail filter in python?

[François Pinard]

Gerrit Holl <gerrit.holl at pobox.com> writes:

> The procmail syntax is really obfuscated.

You get used to it, or at least, the part that you need.  We both quite
understand than mouse-clicking teenagers would be completely lost in it :-).

> What about creating a mail filter with a Python syntax?  Shouldn't be too
> difficult, just create some functions (drop, match_header) and execfile()
> a file with the rexec module...

Do not underestimate what `procmail' does.  It has a _lot_ of features, and
was debugged over many years, by a rather careful programmer.  Of course,
one may try and do better, this is often how programs evolve.  But the
overall problem might much, much more obfuscated than procmail syntax :-).

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard